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Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0719096375
"... The book demolishes a number of historiographic myths and stereotypes surrounding intellectual disability in the Middle Ages and suggests new insights with regard to 'fools', jesters and 'idiots'.
Author : Logic Soloinc (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0463703898
Author : Soloinc Logic
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798649810357
Variothoughts series. Book of fools. What is stupidity? How to find out stupidity? How to avoid stupidity? What is bad about stupidity? What good I know everything about stupidity, I am the most stupid and ignorant person on Earth. Socrates was hypocritical and cunning, but I sincerely say - I'm stupid. Stupidity is helpful. I love stupidity. Ivan the Fool is my hero. Stupidity kills fear.***The main feature of the books "Variothoughts" is their unprecedented honesty and versatility. No censorship of thoughts, absolute freedom of ideas and words. Variothoughts is a guide to the labyrinths of thought. Concentrate of information. Time is money. Secret knowledge, forbidden and lost wisdom. Thoughts that will forever change your understanding of life. Knowledge is power.***Variothoughts is a book for those who save their time. Ready-made Lego cubes used to put together any ideas and goals. The DNA and RNA of thought. Variothoughts books should be read slowly, chewing every thought carefully. Truth is that which has extension properties, and falsehood is pride, that is, an avid rush.***The reader is offered a thematic set of Syntalism thoughts, aphorisms and metaphors on the topic indicated in the title of the book. The meaning of Variothoughts is the search for 3D truth. The knowledge of truth comes through the denial of lies, which are infinite, so the act of faith associated with the knowledge of truth is an infinite source of joy and strength. Great thing the truth? Great thing a lie?
Author : Brian Fugere,Chelsea Hardaway,Jon Warshawsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0743269098
There is a fundamental disconnection between the way business people speak and real people communicate. From advertisers, big business and CEOs - the blather is coming at us in waves. The International Language of Business is no longer English - it's gobbledygook. The authors blindly discovered the enormity of the problem in June 2003 with the launch of Bullfighter, an anti-jargon software tool. But jargon is just one symptom in a larger problem afflicting corporate communications today: the wholesale inability to connect with an audience. In the form of admirably straight-talk, we discover how to avoid the 'obscurity trap', 'the anonymity trap', the 'hard-sell trap' and most importantly, 'the tedium trap'. In this witty and practical new book readers are given all the tools they need to fight the 'spin' and learn to speak like the rest of us.
Author : Eric Schwitzgebel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262355360
A collection of quirky, entertaining, and reader-friendly short pieces on philosophical topics that range from a theory of jerks to the ethics of ethicists. Have you ever wondered about why some people are jerks? Asked whether your driverless car should kill you so that others may live? Found a robot adorable? Considered the ethics of professional ethicists? Reflected on the philosophy of hair? In this engaging, entertaining, and enlightening book, Eric Schwitzgebel turns a philosopher's eye on these and other burning questions. In a series of quirky and accessible short pieces that cover a mind-boggling variety of philosophical topics, Schwitzgebel offers incisive takes on matters both small (the consciousness of garden snails) and large (time, space, and causation). A common theme might be the ragged edge of the human intellect, where moral or philosophical reflection begins to turn against itself, lost among doubts and improbable conclusions. The history of philosophy is humbling when we see how badly wrong previous thinkers have been, despite their intellectual skills and confidence. (See, for example, “Kant on Killing Bastards, Masturbation, Organ Donation, Homosexuality, Tyrants, Wives, and Servants.”) Some of the texts resist thematic categorization—thoughts on the philosophical implications of dreidels, the diminishing offensiveness of the most profane profanity, and fatherly optimism—but are no less interesting. Schwitzgebel has selected these pieces from the more than one thousand that have appeared since 2006 in various publications and on his popular blog, The Splintered Mind, revising and updating them for this book. Philosophy has never been this much fun.
Author : Patrick McDonagh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846310959
In ancient Athens, “idiots” were those selfish citizens who dishonorably declined to participate in the life of the polis, and whose disavowal of the public interest was seen as poor taste and an indication of judgment. Over time, however, the term idiot has shifted from that philosophically uncomplicated definition to an ever-changing sociological signifier, encompassing a wide range of meanings and beliefs for those concerned with intellectual and cognitive disability. Idiocy: A Cultural History offers for the first time a analysis of the concept, drawing on cultural, sociological, scientific, and popular representations ranging from Wordsworth’s “Idiot Boy” and Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge to Down’s “Ethnic classification of idiots.” It tracks how our changing definition of idiocy intersects with demography, political movements, philosophical traditions, economic concerns, and the growth of the medical profession.
Author : J. Pharoah Doss,T. Andrew Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329458796
The Foolish One (or the Facilitator of Failure) is a graphic volume of poetry. (Poems and Comic strips) It is the first volume of this genre and the first book of a ten part series. It is the poetic diary, or therapeutic journal, of a frustrated inner city school teacher that has taught in a failing school district for five years. The poems and the comic strips will introduce the reader to an environment the school teacher refers to as the inner asylum and a place he calls the laboratory of failure.
Author : Glenn Beck,Kevin Balfe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439166838
FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes. Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is... ...this book. Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts. And this book is full of them. The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you'll tell them all about England's handgun ban (see page 53). When they tell you that we should copy the UK's health-care system, you'll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244. And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you'll stop saying "no, they won't" and you'll start saying, "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce." (See page 139.) Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.
Author : Tld Book Publishers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1711749079
This funny titled blank urban dictionary is perfect for any millenial to record words and thoughts, Makes great gag gift idea for Christmas and Birthdays.
Author : Ziad K. Abdelnour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118197639
New insights for investors and business people looking to create wealth in the turbulent post-crisis world In a no holds barred expose of the 2008 financial meltdown from the inside, Ziad K. Abdelnour argues that the political and financial elites have done nothing to fix the structural problems and instead have worsened the situation. By creating more market bubbles, they are actually waging a war on the most productive members of society. For investors, business people, and entrepreneurs that need to navigate the troubled geopolitical waters of the post-crisis world, Abdelnour offers several solutions, including looking at the world anew and understanding that the federal government's primary objective is to promote the creation of an environment conducive to the creation of wealth not job creation, not bailouts, not subsidies, not expansion of the federal bureaucracy, and not providing lifetime support to those who choose not to take advantage of the innumerable opportunities that exist in this nation for them to create a better, more productive life for themselves. Written for investors that need to navigate the troubled geopolitical waters of the post-crisis world · Offers "out of the box" investment tactics and strategies to outsmart the system · Describes political and business solutions that anyone can engage in to restore freedom and prosperity The author is President and CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a private family office that has two major lines of business, private equity investments and advisory services, and physical commodities trading Compelling and persuasive, Economic Warfare reveals that wealth can be created in the new, post-crisis world, but investors need to understand that the rules of the game have changed.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man". The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved.
Author : Johnson
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131711013
Author : Simon Jarrett
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789143027
Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.
Author : Charles Pierce
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780767926157
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units · Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough · Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.
Author : J. Thomas Rimer,Van C. Gessel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1477 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231521642
This comprehensive anthology collects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. In addition to their literary achievements, the texts reflect the political, social, and intellectual changes that occurred in Japanese society during this period, including exposure to Western ideas and literature, the rise of nationalism, and the complex interaction of traditional and modern forces. The volume offers outstanding, often new translations of classic texts by such celebrated writers as Nagai Kafu, Shimazaki Toson, Natsume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, and Yosano Akiko. The editors have also unearthed works from lesser-known women writers, many of which have never been available in English. Organized chronologically and by genre within each period, the volume reveals the major influences in the development of modern Japanese literature: the Japanese classics themselves, the example of Chinese poetry, and the encounter with Western literature and culture. Modern Japanese writers reread the classics of Japanese literature, infused them with contemporary language, and refashioned them with an increased emphasis on psychological elements. They also reinterpreted older aesthetic concepts in light of twentieth-century mentalities. While modern ideas captured the imagination of some Japanese writers, the example of classical Chinese poetry remained important for others. Meiji writers continued to compose poetry in classical Chinese and adhere to a Confucian system of thought. Another factor in shaping modern Japanese literature was the example of foreign works, which offered new literary inspiration and opportunities for Japanese readers and writers. Divided into four chapters, the anthology begins with the early modern texts of the 1870s, continues with works written during the years of social change preceding World War I and the innovative writing of the interwar period, and concludes with texts from World War II. Each chapter includes a helpful critical introduction, situating the works within their literary, political, and cultural contexts. Additionally, there are biographical introductions for each writer.